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Anti-paparazzi sunglasses {Hack a Day}
Jun 27th 2008 9:55PM 1. those are AG3 batteries, which are alkaline, not lithium, and 1.5v.
1.1. those have a capacity of about 23mah. I wouldn't expect this to work for more than about 30 mins, until the cell voltage drops below the vf for the LED.
2. if a paparazzi was using a camera, they would likely have spent above $50 on it, and it would have an infrared filter. Even my phone camera has a somewhat ineffective IR filter on it, which means it'd just see this as white dots. My D40 doesn't see even my 0.5W IR LED star.
3. Metacafe. Draw your own conclusions. You can't un-view something.
ARDAgent setuid allows root access, but there's a sort-of fix {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jun 25th 2008 11:47PM Yes, there is a way:
VNC server for Mac OS X: http://www.redstonesoftware.com/products/vine_server/OS_X
VNC client for Mac OS X:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cotvnc/
I've used these two quite successfully.
William Gibson interviewed by io9 {Hack a Day}
Jun 10th 2008 10:22PM @1
I disagree.
RGB laser diode projector {Hack a Day}
Jun 9th 2008 8:31AM Add a smoke machine between the projector and the projection screen :)
Consumer HMD comparison {Hack a Day}
Jun 8th 2008 6:49AM The Zeiss Cinemizer comes in black, which looks a LOT better than the white IMO.
Skyfire browser for Windows Mobile is game changing, does Flash {Engadget}
Jan 29th 2008 4:39AM > KarlW, you're wrong on many levels. I won't get into it but I will say this: Safari on an iPhone
> is almost the same Binary that is installed in OS X which means it can easily take advantage
> of the existing Flash plugin.
Hints for the clueless.: Mac OS X has x86 and PPC variants. The iPhone is running a cut down version of OS X, but it runs on ARM. The binaries are in fact very very different because of something called CPU architecture. The Flash plugin is therefore not able to simply be copied over. Apple cannot recompile the Flash plugin for ARM, because Adobe makes it, not them.
Lastly, the desktop Safari and the iPhone/iPod Touch Safari are actually quite different in terms of user interface - they only really share a rendering engine. Had you used them, you might see this.
So Kris, and anybody else who clicked on the + button, you might want to understand some highly basic things about computer software.
Confirmed: MacBook Air SuperDrive does NOT work with other machines {Engadget}
Jan 28th 2008 3:13AM The issue is, for those of you not just wanting to bash Apple for whatever reasons they can find, is that things require power, and a single USB port isn't supposed to, and can't provide that much.
Yes, as many have pointed out, there are external DVD drives out there, but:
1. They require a power brick as well as USB, or
2. They use more than one USB port to get power (the usual two plugs), or
3. They are low power drives, which, are a lot slower, or
3a. They cannot burn when powered from bus power (the one JWTrooper bought specifies "0. BUS POWER SUPPORT ON READING", in the documentation and has an included power adaptor - not the same thing as the MBA's drive, which doesn't have, and doesn't need an external adaptor.).
Of course, in the great rush to bash Apple for anything you can think of, finer details are forgotten, and the argument inevitably degenerates into name-calling and other childishness. Call me whatever you like, vote my comment down to "Lowest Rated" if you want.
Wiimote IR finger tracking {Hack a Day}
Nov 9th 2007 7:42PM @2
This is hackaday, build your own IR fingerlights!
(it's only a battery, a resistor and an ir led... possibly a switch if you like)
Speaker as a microphone {Hack a Day}
Oct 27th 2007 11:12PM @1
Or anyone with any other earbuds - they all are pretty much the same.
Simple iPhone headphone mod {Hack a Day}
Sep 20th 2007 3:38AM Had to do a similar thing to use an audio cable with my Palm TX (this audio cable had a big wide plug...)
